curriculum vitae

Professor James S. Cutsinger
Department of Religious Studies
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
Telephone: 803-777-2284; Fax: 803-777-0213
Email: cutsinger@sc.edu; Website: www.cutsinger.net
EDUCATION
1975 B.A. Cornell College (Political Theory, Russian Language and Literature)
1980 Ph.D. Harvard University (Theology and Religious Thought)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor, University of South Carolina, 2000 - present
Dean, Rose Hill College, 1995 - 1997
Associate Professor, University of South Carolina, 1986 - 2000
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, 1980 - 1986
TEACHING
Philosophical Theology and Philosophy of Religion; Systematic Theology and History of
Christian Doctrine; Mysticism, Spirituality, and Perennial Philosophy; Comparative
Religious Thought; Great Books
Director: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for Teachers on
“Coleridge and the Imagination” (1986, 1988, 1991)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Form of Transformed Vision: Coleridge and the Knowledge of God, Foreword by
Owen Barfield (Mercer University, 1987)
Advice to the Serious Seeker: Meditations on the Teaching of Frithjof Schuon (State
University of New York, 1997)
Reclaiming the Great Tradition: Evangelicals, Catholics, and Orthodox in Dialogue, ed.
(InterVarsity Press, 1997)
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Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East, ed. (Fons Vitae, 2002)
Not of This World: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism, ed. (World Wisdom, 2003)
The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, ed., Foreword by Antoine Faivre
(World Wisdom, 2004)
Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life, ed., Foreword by Philip
Zaleski (World Wisdom, 2005)
Frithjof Schuon, Gnosis: Divine Wisdom, trans. and ed. (World Wisdom, 2006)
Frithjof Schuon, Sufism: Veil and Quintessence, trans. and ed. (World Wisdom, 2006)
Frithjof Schuon, Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts, trans. and ed. (World Wisdom,
2007)
Frithjof Schuon, Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism, trans. and ed.
(World Wisdom, 2008)
Frithjof Schuon, Logic and Transcendence, trans. and ed. (World Wisdom, 2009)
Catalogue and Curriculum Design
“Rose Hill College Catalogue” (1996-97) [Founding charter, pedagogy, and curriculum
for a Christian (Eastern Orthodox) “great books” college in Aiken, South Carolina]
Selected Articles and Chapters
“Coleridgean Polarity and Theological Vision,” Harvard Theological Review, 76:1
(1983)
“Error in Coleridge,” Hamartia: The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition, ed.
Donald V. Stump, James A. Arieti, Lloyd Gerson, Eleonore Stump (Edwin Mellen, 1984)
“Toward a Method of Knowing Spirit,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 14:2
(1985) — selected “Best Article of the Year” by the College Theology Society
“Inside without Outside: Coleridge, the Form of the One, and God,” The Interpretation of
Belief: Coleridge, Schleiermacher, and Romanticism, ed. David Jasper (Macmillan,
1986)
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“Tam Antiqua, Tam Nova,” Fragments of Infinity: Essays in Religion and Philosophy,
ed. Arvind Sharma (Prism Press, 1988)
“Femininity, Hierarchy, and God,” Religion of the Heart: Essays Presented to Frithjof
Schuon, ed. Nasr and Stoddart (Foundation for Traditional Studies, 1991)
“Listening More Closely to Schuon,” ARIES: Association pour la Recherche de
l'Information sur l'Esoterisme, 14 (1992)
“A Knowledge that Wounds Our Nature: The Message of Frithjof Schuon,” Journal of
the American Academy of Religion, 60:3 (1992)
“An Open Letter on Tradition and Modernity”, Modern Age: A Quarterly Review, 36:3
(1994)
“On Earth as It Is in Heaven: A Metaphysical Cosmogony,” Sacred Web: A Journal of
Tradition and Modernity, 1:1 (1998) — anthologized in Science and the Myth of
Progress, ed. Mehrdad M. Zarandi (World Wisdom, 2003)
“The Mystery of the Two Natures,” Sophia: The Journal of Traditional Studies, 4:2
(1998) — also published in French translation as “Le Mystère des Deux Natures,”
Connaissance des Religions (Numero Hors Serie, 1999) and in Italian as “Il Mistero delle
due Nature”, Invito alla Tradizione Cristiana: Saggi di J. Cutsinger, J. Hani, A. Moore,
M. Pallis, P. Sherrard, K. Ware (Rome: Terre Sommerse, 2009); anthologized in Every
Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man, ed. Barry McDonald (World Wisdom,
2002)
“Colorless Light and Pure Air: The Virgin in the Thought of Frithjof Schuon,” Maria: A
Journal of Marian Studies, 3:1 (2002) — also published in French translation as “La
Vierge”, Frithjof Schuon, ed. Patrick Laude and Jean-Baptiste Aymard (L’Age
d’Homme, 2002); anthologized in Ye Shall Know the Truth: Christianity and the
Perennial Philosophy, ed. Mateus Azevedo (World Wisdom, 2005)
“Hesychia: An Orthodox Opening to Esoteric Ecumenism,” Paths to the Heart: Sufism
and the Christian East, ed. James S. Cutsinger (World Wisdom and Fons Vitae, 2002) —
also published in Serbo-Croation translation as “Hezihija: Pravoslavno otvaranje
ezoterijskom ekumenizmu,” Bosna Franciscana, 10 (2002)
“The Ladder of Divine Ascent: The Yoga of Hesychasm,” Merton and Hesychasm: The
Prayer of the Heart in the Eastern Church, ed. Bernadette Dieker and Jonathan Montaldo
(Fons Vitae, 2003) — reprinted in Parabola: The Magazine of Myth and Tradition, 30:2
(2005); anthologized in The Inner Journey: Views from the Christian Tradition, ed.
Lorraine Kisly (Morning Light Press, 2006)
“Perennial Philosophy and Christianity”, Christianity: The Complete Guide, ed. John
Bowden (Continuum, 2005) — also published in German translation as Philosophia
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Perennis und Christentum” (Munich: Books Ex Oriente, 2009); and in Italian as
“Cristianesimo e Filosofia Perenne”, Invito alla Tradizione Cristiana: Saggi di J.
Cutsinger, J. Hani, Moore, M. Pallis, P. Sherrard, K. Ware (Rome: Terre Sommerse,
2009)
“The Noble Lie”, Sacred Web: A Journal of Tradition and Modernity, 19:1 (2007)
“Disagreeing to Agree: A Christian Response to A Common Word”, Muslim and
Christian Understanding: Theory and Application of “A Common Word”, ed. Waleed ElAnsary and David K. Linnan (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010)
HONORS AND AWARDS
University of South Carolina Honors College Distinguished Professor of the Year (1990)
Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award (1999)
Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching (1986, 1995, 2006)
Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year, USC’s most prestigious faculty
award (2011)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Religion
International Society for Neoplatonic Studies
Foundation for Traditional Studies (Secretary to the Board of Directors)

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